Chris Wilkinson,

Director of People

A Talentful Case Study

About Cutover
Cutover is a cloud-enabled work
orchestration and observability platform. It
helps turn complex sets of human and
machine activities into well-orchestrated,
Startup repeatable flows of activity, enabling teams
to go faster while causing less customer-
facing incidents.

Cutover’s target market comprises complex,

data-rich enterprises - primarily large banks,
investment firms and fintech organisations.

UK

cutover.com
 The Challenge
As an early-stage business, Cutover had no internal talent function and a heavy
reliance on expensive candidate platforms to attract prospective candidates with
their little-known EVP. Ahead of appointing a Head of Talent, Cutover looked to
Talentful to establish a best-in-class, functional process for outbound
headhunting that would level up the quality of candidates across technical roles.
Talentful would then also need to work in close partnership with Cutover’s
newly-appointed Head of Talent once hired.

Cutover were referred to Talentful via Index Ventures, who led their $17m Series
A raise in November 2019, after successful partnerships with other early-stage
investments in their portfolio. Talentful’s long track record of effectively scaling
early-stage technology teams provided a compelling, coherent solution to
Cutover’s challenges.

Converting prospective Articulating a deeply Competing for high-bar

employees into technical product to technical talent with
candidates with non-technical candidate larger, resource-rich
minimal brand audiences. tech companies.
recognition.

The Solution
We parachuted a Senior Talent Partner from our Startups team into Cutover,
accelerating the already impressive growth of the London office’s technical
teams. After successfully hiring for all open roles within the first two months, we
pivoted towards the implementation of our talent pool engineering methodology
to build senior-level market interest in joining Cutover’s New York and London
teams.

Cutover benefitted from an on-site talent partner with deep domain

expertise, the clout of 4+ years of comprehensive hiring market data and an
experienced Startup Director from Talentful, offering strategic guidance to
the project team.
 The Results
We successfully made 4 senior engineering hires across Month One and Two,
delivered a successful executive search methodology, returned heavy cost
savings vs agency charges for the same hires and implemented a robust talent
pooling framework to provide long-term ROI beyond our partnership. This
project was delivered during the market downturn caused by COVID-19,
capturing Talentful consultant’s expertise in navigating challenging markets
and mitigating the perceived risk of joining early-stage companies to passive
candidates.

We saw a 100% offer acceptance rate, 21 day average time to hire, four senior-level
engineering hires across cloud engineering, full-stack development and Ruby
engineering.

We started this project in February 2020 (ongoing) and over-delivered against

timeline expectations set with the client.

100% 21 Days 4
Acceptance Average time Senior level
rate to hire hires

“ Taking a more executive-search style approach to

a couple of niche/leadership roles has been the
project that stands out most clearly; from doing
market-mapping and talent intel research to a
higher level than most exec-search firms I've
worked with, to tailored, strategic candidate
reach-out/engagement
Chris Wilkinson, plans.
Director of People

Alex Duell, Head of Talent

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Cutover